WILLOUGHBY HOWARD NELSON
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Officer Rank: Deputy Warden
Memorial Panel: 61-W: 29
Department: Tennessee Department of Correction
End of Watch: July 27, 1894
Cause: BOMB
Age: 50
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Warden Nelson was killed and two corrections officers were wounded at the Tracy City coal mine when convicts, who were attempting to escape, detonated a pipe bomb.
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